If you ever edit an anthology of prose poems, people will ask you: “What’s the difference between a prose poem and flash fiction / micro-essay / other sub-genre?” For The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem (2018) I had two rules: it had to be written without line breaks, and it had to have been published as poetry.
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A Personal Anthology, by Jeremy Noel-Tod
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If you ever edit an anthology of prose poems, people will ask you: “What’s the difference between a prose poem and flash fiction / micro-essay / other sub-genre?” For The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem (2018) I had two rules: it had to be written without line breaks, and it had to have been published as poetry.